Lumascape kicked off the trend for bringing an entire industry together on a single graphic while others have followed too, but Scott Brinker’s latest offering adds some vastly improved organisation to this bustling industry.

Brinker’s marketing technology supergraphic manages to incorporate almost 2,000 different companies without ever looking too chaotic. It is no mean feat given how his annual project...

There was never much doubt that mobile commerce was set to take off in a big way in the last year or two. But what has perhaps come as a surprise is just how comfortable users have become with their devices.

Mobile now contributes more across the whole purchasing funnel, with smartphones now overtaking tablets to generate more transactions, according to the first quarterly State of Mobile Commerce report from Criteo.

Nucleus [noo-klee-uh s, nyoo-] - A central part about which other parts are grouped or gathered; core.

While this is a term usually reserved for chemistry, it is also a perfect description for mobile devices, as they have become the centre of human existence.

What science tells us is that it is very difficult to penetrate nuclei, which is also the case when it comes to getting to the centre of consumer media engagement. The best way to reach and resonate with mobile...

Usage of lifestyle and shopping apps grew a whopping 174% in 2014 against an average app usage increase of 76% according to Flurry Analytics. Its figures were particularly staggering on Android where the shopping category increased by 220%.

The usage, defined as a user opening an app and recording a session, is a move on from previous years where casual usage in areas such as games and entertainment were the biggest growers. Apps in utilities and productivity and messaging and...

The relationship between shoppers, brands and consumers has changed. The internet, combined with the growth in the number of channels, devices and means by which the average consumer shops and considers purchases, has made the path to purchase a very different process.

Although the five steps, awareness, consideration, interaction, purchase and advocacy are unchanged, the means by which consumers engage with them is very different.

Do you remember the days when you actually had to read something to get the message? In today’s world it is the visual medium that is becoming the way to communicate whether that is through video or pictures.

The trend to capture life through imagery rather than words is feeding through to advertising too and forcing marketers to rethink how they communicate with their customers.

But it is Facebook that is proving one of the biggest mediums for communicating via video. As...

Mobile has emerged like a juggernaut. It has smashed both the public’s and business’s perception of computing and transformed a gadget into something more akin to a life support system. Yet mobile devices and the software they run exist in parallel worlds.

There is the “just like a computer or TV only smaller” contingent, which is mostly B2C. There is the “gateway to the enterprise” market, which is pretty much all B2B. And there is the B2E...

US-headquartered General Motors has announced a new product called AtYourService, through its OnStar subsidiary, that lets retailers and merchants target drivers with contextual marketing and promotions.

It was only a matter of time before car manufacturers made it possible for advertisers to target drivers with marketing and General Motors has been the one to blink first.

General Motors has already partnered with several third-party companies including performance marketing publisher RetailMeNot for coupons...

The average person checks their mobile as much as 221 times a day and spends roughly three hours and 16 minutes enjoying mobile content each day. With statistics like this it is clear that consumers are desperate for mobile content and this is a trend that is likely to continue to grow into the new year and beyond.

Mobile’s popularity among consumers and brands continues to rise rapidly. However, despite this increase in interest, so many brands are yet to fully capitalise on the evolving relationship....

2014 felt like the movie Groundhog Day. Wake up to the sounds of the song, I Got You Babe (or, in this case, Pharrell’s just-as-incessant ‘Happy’), then open your news provider of choice to read about yet another social network launching a ‘Buy’ button.

Pinterest in January, Facebook in July, Twitter in September - frankly, it was a surprise not to see WhatsApp reinvented as a social assistant that reads your texts, hacks your bank details, then buys...